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Show 84 DR. J. C. C O X O N N E W L A N D SHELLS. [Jan. 27, spire obtuse, suture narrow, not excavated ; whorls 5, last whorl inflated at the base, aud excavated round the perforation ; peristome simple, thin, columellar margin dilated at its insertion. Diam., greatest 0*12, least 0*10, height 0*10 of an inch. Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides; found under leaves near the sea (Brazier). 12. HELIX PATESCENS. Shell imperforate, globosely depressed, thin, transparent, pale straw-coloured, shining, finely rugosely striated; spire conically raised; whorls 3| to 4, the last rapidly increasing, much inflated at the base, and banded with a faint broad brown band; aperture oblique ; peristome simple, thin, rounded. Diam., greatest 0*16, least 0*12 ; height 0*12 of an inch. Hab. Norfolk Island, uuder leaves in damp places (Brazier). 13. HELIX DEPSTA. Deeply, rather widely, and openly umbilicated, discoid, thin, light yellowish brown ; spire almost flat, suture well defined ; whorls 4k, roughly arcuately striated above, much smoother below, slowly increasing in size, the last very slightly angled and a little depressed at its termination ; aperture oblique, Innately rounded; peristome simple, not thickened, columellar margin not expanded. Diam., greatest 023, least 0*19 ; height 0*13 of an inch. Hab. Norfolk Island; under leaves in damp places (Brazier). 14. HELIX RETARDATA. Shell deeply, openly, but narrowly umbilicated, thin, transparent, hyaline, pale horn-colour ; apex of spire raised ; whorls 5, gradually increasing, last not depressed, smooth and unsculptured; peristome lunately rounded, columellar margin a little dilated and reflected. Diam., greatest 0*16, least 0*12; height 0*12 of an inch. Hub. Aneiteum, New Hebrides ; found under dead leaves near to the sea-shore (Brazier). 15. DIPLOMMATINA WISEMANI. Shell sinistral, callously rimate, elongately oval, pupiform, light yellowish brown ; apex acute ; whorls 5, very finely obliquely, closely, and regularly costulate, third and fourth becoming rapidly tumidly enlarged, last contracted and subascendent; aperture subcircular, much expanded, thick, shining, and porcellaneous; margins joined by a thick expanded callus. Breadth 0*05, height 0*11 of an inch. Hab. Wanga, San Christoval, Solomon Isles (Brazier); found on the mountains, in damp places, under leaves. Named, by Mr. Brazier's request, after Commodore Wiseman. 16. DIPLOMMATINA BRAZIERI. Shell rimate, cylindrically acuminate, of a dull white colour; spire |
